You fu**ers, I feel so old and haven't even made it to the video!!!! I got high centered here when they start warming up:

"I meet my good friend Aaron Jones in Yosemite and we started by climbing the Regular Route on Half Dome and the Nose of El Cap in a day. We had climbed some easier routes early that week, but this was a big goal for both of us. We simuled 90% of Half Dome and short fixed the Nose; the end time was 19 hours."

I feel that many of these modern climbers have little idea of what climbing was every time I watch one of these videos. Bolting on lead was cutting edge? Sorry, we all got out there and wacked those bolts in by hand. If a lowly 5.11 R/X is too easy how about a video of Southern Belle for a change?

Or better yet Why don't you get out and make a test piece? Or better yet make your own Rich Romano/Steve Grossman/John Redhead routes to test the future generations on.

Hayden is taking Yosemite115 as his first year university course. "101" being for those of us who might need the entry level - but Hayden, 18 ( or gonna be this year ), a powerful climber, is quite able to take on classic testpieces. And who wouldn't want to do this ? In memoriam to JB and in consideration of the most wonderful Dave Yerian , I can only imagine what Joy & Fun Hayden saw in wanting to climb this route.
In the future, time will happen for Hayden to do put up his own big routes. For now, I - among many - take great pleasure in watching Hayden become a young man in the Valley - the way so many of us did so many years ago.

Okay so I didn't become a man....didn't magically grow a penis........thankgod......but the Valley was definitely the Granite Crucible for myself & many of my friends.

But the word "crush" cracks me up when used for climbing. For me it still serves better for grade nines who got a horndog on for somebody or for what happens when you hit a turtle with yer truck.

Really well-produced video. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. It once again proves that principle we learn over and over and over again in climbing, we have nothing to fear but fear itself. And I am really grateful that Bachar gets plenty of acknowledgement by Kennedy. Love (along with some upthread) that stance bolting and stance/hook bolting is “futuristic”!! The production could easily have been a facile treatment, Hayden's ascent made to seem as if it trivialized the first ascensionists, minimizing what they went through 28 years ago. No, there was plenty of respect displayed here and if you watch really closely you can see Hayden really does notice the spreadout protection. Great!! Hurrah for the next bunch of young climbers!!

I feel that many of these modern climbers have little idea of what climbing was every time I watch one of these videos.

It's been twelve years since I last saw Hayden, and he wasn't talking much about climbing history then -- most six-year-olds don't -- but I've met his daddy a couple of times and my guess is that if there's one eighteen-year-old in the world that has a sense of the history of climbing, it'd be him.

rick d, whoever you are, maybe you know the kid really well, and can tell us that in fact he's a clueless poser who somehow tricked BD into making a video of him, but you know what? I doubt it.